Who wrote Brahms' last music review in Germany?

I think Brahms' spiritual love is very helpless.

Ohannes Brahms (full name translated as Ohannes Brahms). 1833.5.7-1897.4.3), German composer. 1833 was born in the family of a professional musician in Hamburg, Germany on May 7th. His childhood was very poor. At the age of seven, he studied piano with his father. 13 years old, accompanied the dance in the hotel and played for his father in the theater. At the same time, in order to get more pay, he also wrote many Sharon music works, including various dance music, marches and orchestral arrangements.

In his early years, he studied piano with Gasell and Edward Marxson. He has made many friends in his life. 1853 I met Ramenyi and joseph joachim in Weimar, and I was introduced to the Schumann couple, which was appreciated and supported.

1862 to Vienna. After full preparation, I began to write symphonies. I finished symphonyNo. 1 in C minor at 1876, symphony No.2 in D major at 1877, symphony No.3 in F major at 1883 and symphony No.4 in E minor at 1885.

65438+In the 1960s, he settled in Vienna, the music center of Europe at that time, as his second hometown. 1897 died in Vienna on April 3rd.

1896, 63-year-old Brahms dragged his dying body and drove in Europe in despair and pain. Rushed from Switzerland to Frankfurt for the funeral. In a hurry, he got on the train in the opposite direction and drove him farther and farther away from where he was going. When he arrived in Frankfurt, the funeral was over. Sleeping behind a cross, someone he'll never see again.

The sky was gray and wild, and he stood alone in front of the grave. He carried the violin on his shoulder and played a violin song with an unknown name, pouring out his feelings for 43 years and his thoughts for 40 years.

The audience is just the people in the grave.

The owner of the tomb is Clara, the wife of a pianist and musician Schumann, and Jenny of Brahms.

1853, Brahms, who was 20 years old, first met Clara, who was 14 years older than him. She was the mother of several children.

Brahms fell in love with Clara at first sight. In the following years, Brahms and Clara took care of the sick Schumann and his and Clara's children together until Schumann died of mental illness in 1856.

Years of getting along deepened Brahms' love for Clara. However, Clara is her own mistress, she is Schumann's wife, Schumann is a father and brother she has always respected. Reason suppressed Brahms' feelings, and he separated love from desperate thoughts by means of spatial isolation. So he chose to leave and never meet again.

That year, 1856.

Brahms left Clara physically, but no one knows whether his heart has left. Brahms, who left Clara, once sponsored Clara's national tour and performed all Schumann's works; He wrote countless love letters to Clara, but never sent them; He has been keeping in touch with Clara and has been concerned about each other's lives; 1875 completed the piano quartet in c minor dedicated to Clara, which took 20 years. Every musical score manuscript he created in his life was sent to Clara; He never married.

When love breaks out, it is like a scourge, unstoppable. However, Brahms never let the waves of his desire overflow the dam of reason. He expressed all these desires in music. He said, "All my best melodies come from Clara."

However, the flower of love will not bloom only once. In the 40 years since his separation from Clara, Brahms did not love others. He doesn't live in heaven.

1858, in the third year of the separation of Brahms and Clara, Brahms met a female singer named Agate in G? ttingen, and she liked Brahms' songs very much. Brahms wrote more than 200 songs in his life. He liked songs very much, so he used agate to study the creation and singing of songs. Agate fell in love with him, and he also fell in love with agate and exchanged rings with each other. However, in the end Brahms and Agate are just figs. In his letter to Agate, he said, "I long to hug you, but marriage is impossible." Perhaps, in his mind, Clara is eternal Later, Agate married someone else.

Five years later, Brahms dedicated a sextet in G major to Agate. The second theme in the song is based on the name of agate: A-G-A-DE, which makes him have an unforgettable feeling for agate.

10 years later, when Agate gave birth to her second child, Brahms chose a nursery rhyme from a pictorial and composed a song for Agate and her children. This is the famous "lullaby":

Sleep, little baby, sleep sweetly. ...

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When Brahms first knocked on Schumann's door, he never thought that he would have an indissoluble bond with the woman in this door in his life.

Schumann came out of the study when he heard that the guests were coming. Wearing casual clothes and slippers, he was quiet and melancholy, his voice was almost inaudible, and his eyes were kind and soft, which immediately freed the shy Brahms from the dilemma.

Brahms took out the first draft of a piano sonata in C major and asked Schumann for advice.

Schumann opened the piano cover and asked Brahms to sit down and play. Before he finished playing a page, Schumann, standing behind him, gently pressed his shoulder and said kindly, "Please stop, I hope Clara can hear you ..."

Clara is his beloved wife and a famous pianist.

Brahms was beaming when Clara entered the living room.

At this time, Clara has passed her girlhood as beautiful as flowers and entered middle age, but this is the most mature and brilliant period of a woman's intelligence, emotion and beauty. Clara's noble temperament and demeanor have an extraordinary charm.

Brahms paused for a moment. An emotion that I have never experienced before arises spontaneously.

His fingers slid on the keys with great dexterity. When he stood up after playing a song, Schumann grabbed him with open arms and shouted excitedly, "Genius! Young man, genius! ……"

That night, Clara wrote in her diary:

"Today, a great man came from Hamburg-Brahms ... he was only 20 years old and was sent directly by God. Robert said that there is no need to have any hope except to pray for God to bless his health. "

Schumann can't help but mention the pen of criticism that was interrupted 10 years ago, and wrote a famous music review "New Road" for New Music magazine, enthusiastically expressing his gratitude to the new genius in the music industry.

This is the last music review of his life.

He also used his influence to get publishers to publish Brahms' early works.

He invited Brahms to live in his home. At that time, it was this blond young man, and the master couple talked about it all day.

They were deeply attracted by the young man.

Brahms was also completely conquered by the master musician and his wife. He admired their wisdom and personality not only out of gratitude and gratitude.

The young man was born in the slums of Hamburg. When he was young, he was forced by life and hung out in bars. Lack of education opportunities, there is no way to learn etiquette. He is careless, straightforward, informal and almost irritable. He is the son of a farmer and has many farmers' habits. However, he seems to be a different person in front of Schumann and Clara.

Especially for Clara, this woman is superior to him in intellectuality, education and temperament. Even after he became mature and famous, as long as he stood in front of Clara, he felt that she was superior to himself everywhere.

He worships her.

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Less than half a year after this decisive meeting, Schumann went crazy.

As early as the summer after Schumann and Clara got married for four years, Schumann first had symptoms of nervous breakdown. Later, even when I heard music, my nerves couldn't stand it. His father died of mental illness. This genetic disease is his fatal wound, and it also casts a shadow over his picturesque happy life with Clara.

1854 One day in February, Schumann was tortured by the voices of angels and demons all night. Then on a rainy day, without wearing a hat, I quietly walked to the Rhine Bridge and jumped into the rapids. Fortunately, I was found and sent to a mental hospital.

Brahms, who was in Hanover at that time, heard the terrible news and rushed to Clara without thinking.

Clara was pregnant with her seventh child, and such a terrible shock made her sad. Brahms became the only reliable friend of this unfortunate wife and mother. Her experience inspired his courage and compassion, and made this dull and somewhat vulgar young man feel delicate and meticulous.

He took care of her and her children wholeheartedly, and he looked after the children at home when Clara went out to perform. He once wrote a letter to Clara in a serious way and took pains to tell her: "The children refused to study ABC hard. I gave them a lot of candy, but it was still useless. I really can't help them. "

He also visited Schumann in the madhouse on behalf of Clara, and wrote a detailed letter to Clara who was performing outside. When he put Clara's portrait in Schumann's hand, he described to her:

"He kissed it, and then put it down with trembling hands. This is really the most touching scene. I can't describe his elegant and quiet movements, the warmth when he talks about you and the joy when he sees your portrait. I can only let you imitate with the most beautiful imagination. I was almost drunk with joy. "

How sincere and pure Brahms' feelings are!

At this time, Brahms' creation was at its initial climax. Because of his association with Schumann, he finally captured the essence of romantic music, so he spent half a year writing the Piano Trio in B Major. When Clara calmed down, he played this song to her and asked her for advice. Sometimes, according to the theme Schumann gave Clara, a wonderful variation will pop up.

Clara has long been worshipped as the muse. Now, when she is suffering and tired, it is a great comfort to inspire a young admirer and make her feel more happy.

In this bitter and friendly atmosphere, the feelings between them are getting stronger and stronger.

At first, Brahms returned to Clara out of a sense of moral responsibility. Now, he can't be separated from Clara.

Clara went to foster to recuperate. Brahms was traveling outside and rushed to Clara as soon as he heard the news. A few months later, Clara went to Holland to perform. Brahms spent his only money with her for a few days and rushed to Rotterdam to accompany her.

Brahms' devout worship and sincere feelings for Clara at first naturally gradually turned into passionate love. Although Clara is 14 years older than him and is the mother of seven children, this does not reduce his attachment to her. On the contrary, because she knows more about life than he does, it increases her attraction. And her patience and self-control over grief made him admire him even more.

However, Clara is his mentor's wife. At this time, Schumann was in the grip of a terrible disease, and Clara still dedicated her eternal love to her husband. So Brahms can only love her silently and regard her as a mother-like friend.

He gave up several opportunities to become famous and make money just to be with Clara. He kept writing her love letters and pouring out his heart, but none of them were sent to Clara. Because he understood the true meaning of love from Clara and saw the beauty of self-restraint.

Clara understood Brahms' enthusiasm and the enthusiasm he gave for her. But he cherishes his genius and loyalty more. She also forgave his naivety. She guided him to face the reality with feminine tenderness and comforted his turbulent soul with maternal love.

In the past two years, Brahms' life has been devoted to Clara, to that pure, noble and hopeless love, and to that love that can only be buried deep in his heart.

Clara is his goddess.

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Schumann died two years later.

Two years have passed, and the long pain has not weakened the weight of this final blow. Clara's heart is broken.

Now Clara is free.

In the past two years, those scum who are keen on spreading gossip have been shouting there even more shamelessly. Some people even say that Brahms is the father of Clara's last child.

However, Brahms unexpectedly left Clara.

Brahms is not afraid of those rumors, but because he increasingly feels that his love is morally impermissible, and this kind of love cannot fill Clara's mental defect of losing Schumann. This conflict between emotion and reason, emotion and morality is becoming more and more acute. Unforgettable love and insurmountable morality gnawed at his heart, which made him feel great pain.

Schumann's death was a heavy blow to him.

Schumann was relieved. He breathed a sigh of relief. He found the power to control his passion. Clara taught him this and he gave it to him.

Brahms learned to control, but the pain will not go away. His pain can only be found in music, and his passion flows from his heart to the staff.

From then on, he began to conceive the Piano Quartet in C minor, and revised it repeatedly after writing it, until it was finally completed 20 years later. What flowed from his pen tip was not the notes, but the blood in his heart.

When he showed his friend the first movement he had just written, he explained, "Please imagine a person shooting himself. He has no other way out. "

Six years later, when he gave the quartet to his friend, he wrote in the letter: "I give it to you purely as an antique-it is an illustration of the last chapter of a man's life in a blue tuxedo and a yellow vest." It means that Goethe's description of the dead Werther at the end of Young Werther implies his Werther-like pain.

Finally, after he left Clara for 20 years, he gave his work to a publisher for publication. He said in the letter: "You must draw a picture on the cover: a head aimed at with a pistol. So you can form a musical concept! "

Witt ended his young life with a pistol, while Brahms recorded Witt-style pain with notes.

Victor has no way out. Art saved Brahms.

Brahms was only 23 years old when he left Clara. Twenty years later, he has not forgotten this pain. Piano Quartet in C minor is the memory of love and the crystallization of pain.

The piano quartet in C minor symbolizes unforgettable love, insurmountable morality and this eternal conflict.

Sad secret admirer.